“The Black-Eyed Blonde” by Benjamin Black (Henry Holt, $27) – In this new novel, Raymond Chandler’s character Philip Marlowe is pulled into a bewildering case by a young heiress.

“The Ogallala Road” by Julene Bair (Viking, $26.95) – Returning to Kansas after years away, Bair is faced with the challenges of saving her family farm. Bair will be at Watermark at 6 p.m. on Friday.

Eighth Day Books

Best-sellers

1. “Dragging Wyatt Earp” by Robert Rebein

2. “8 Wonders of Kansas” by Marci Penner

3. “Penumbra” by Smantha Bennett

4. “Chasing Xaris” by Samantha Bennett

5. “A First Glance at St. Thomas Aquinas: A Handbook for Peeping Thomists” by Ralph McInerny

6. “Hicks, Tribes, and Dirty Realists: American Fiction After Postmodernism” by Robert Rebein

7. “God for Us: Rediscovering the Meaning of Lent and Easter,” edited by Greg Pennoyer

8. “Mere Christianity” by C.S. Lewis

9.. “Life and Miracles of St. Benedict” by St. Gregory the Great

10. “Into the Silent Land” by Marin Laird

New and notable

“The Inner Sky: Poems, Notes, Dreams” by Rainer Maria Rilke (David Godine, $17.95) – A new selection of poems and prose by the great poet Rainer Maria Rilke, set with the original text and a facing page translation, and including more than a dozen works that have never before appeared in English.

“Aesop’s Fables” illustrated by Arthur Rackham; introduction by G.K. Chesterton (Dover, $17.95) – The master from the Golden Age of Illustration lends his humor and romanticism to these age-old morality tales with full-color and illustrations.